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Originally Posted by mizpeh
I can't speak for Jason.
Would you explain this a little more clearly, please? I would say God bases his choices upon his foreknowledge of our choices.
Have you heard of middle knowledge?
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Have you heard of God sitting on His hands and doing nothing while the elect are lost?
The "gun on the table" analogy is pretty clear if you didn't read past it. "God" is responsible for leaving a loaded gun on the table while children were playing in the room. Accepting responsibility for that action, He "intervenes" and returns to the room to spare the lives of his children.
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Originally Posted by mizpeh
I would add to " He chooses to create the world in which all circumstances and choices bring the most glory to His name" that not only does God create the world which brings the most glory to his name but also saves the most people possible.
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... while admitting to his failure as a parent?
I think that accepting the unresolved paradox of free will and determinism at face value brings the most glory to God. The approach allows God to be God and demands that I place faith in that God and His abilities as my own "parent" or "guardian."
It's hard to see how "the most glory" is given to God by the manner in which He has chosen to allow the wasp
Glyptapanteles to breed. Perhaps this is an example of where He "failed" to intervene because none of His children were involved? Still, it's a pretty hard way to treat the caterpillar.
I just don't see Him "choosing" or "calling every shot" in this game. He only seems to get interested when His children are in peril; and then He pulls out all of the stops (see
Calvary).
Just my humble opinion again.
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